Guangbiao Chen is no Red Banner Sister: business cards for the fantastical

Guangbiao Chen is a very wealthy Chinese businessman who enjoyed his 15 minutes of fame last week by arriving in America and proclaiming his intention to buy a stake in the New York Times. The most fantastical piece of the story, however, is his business card (above).

Ha! If your daughter comes down with a new and original illness, don’t say that Shanghai-er didn’t warn you! Sounds like Shanghai is enjoying some clean air right now. Enjoy it!

Some might say that Red Banner Sister should fill her free time by polishing up her CV getting and a job. Some time in the future (like when RBS knows what country she will be living in in 6 months time) those people might be correct. For now, she stretches her mind through blogging.

Perhaps that should read “…we wanted you to know *we think* you’re awesome”. I assume Red Banner Sister knows this without being told. Or is one of her awesome talents extreme modesty? (The list is so long I keep forgetting.)

I get your drift. Thankfully, most people are sensible enough not to generalise it to Chinese people as a whole. But Chen’s “media exposurability” (if it could be called that, or for want of a better description) does exert an impact out of all proportion.